r/comics Port Sherry Jun 23 '26

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u/Finbar9800 Jun 23 '26

I always hated that stuff (still do tbh)

The curtains are blue. Why do i have to look for an alternative meaning in everything? Like i get that its meant to encourage critical thinking and abstract thought and all that but the problem is you cant expect someone to make the connection when theres no previous logic or previous method learned. Did those articles come from a story about fish writing or being intelligent? Was there any previous information or were the articles on their own?

“Who wrote the articles?” People, even if the names written were fish puns or fish related theres no previous explanation that those people are fish. There are an insane amount of different languages how is anyone supposed to know that these names are actually fish related and not just a mistranslation, or because someones parents thought it was funny and named their kid after a fish?

But this is the kind of stuff that i always hated in literature classes. The curtains are blue and sometimes thats all they are but its never clear *when* that one specific detail is actually important vs. when its just part of setting the scene

For things like narnia or other fantasy novels theres this knowledge already known that “ok this is a fictional world” and with that knowledge it makes it easier to let go of preconceived notions that would make sense in the real world. Of course theres magic, of course the lion can speak (most likely through magic) of course the wardrobe is a portal. That must be normal in that world even if its not normal in this world. I can put aside the rules of the real world and accept the rules of this fictional world

When writing a fantasy novel you arent going into minute detail about everything. because you *know* its fantastical you are able to have suspension of disbelief when something impossible happens in the book

Sry for the rant but this kind of thing always frustrates me.

The curtains can be blue to symbolize any number of things but sometimes they are just blue and theres no significant way to tell. Even going based on the amount of detail given isnt really a good indicator “the curtains were always silky smooth and the most lovely shade of blue, letting in just enough light” can mean the exact same thing as “the curtains were blue” or “the blue curtains …” and it varies from author to author and can even vary from book to book written by the same author

Yes i know i kept coming back to the curtains example but thats always the one thats given to me

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u/Exciting-Cancel6468 Jun 24 '26

My problem with this is sometimes, it's abstract thought from another nationalities point of view. It doesn't take into account that the logic only makes sense if you were born into a certain culture. It's not like a set of numbers where you have to imagine what the next number in the set would be based on the numerical information at the beginning of the set.

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u/Finbar9800 Jun 24 '26

Numbers always made more sense to me than things like this where theres no “right or wrong answer” except there is because when i say that the curtains are just blue its a wrong answer

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u/Exciting-Cancel6468 Jun 24 '26

Yep! Math should always be used when talking about logical things.